PHOTOS: St. Louis Is Building Its First Legal Skateboarding Park

Team Pain, a company from Florida that builds skate parks all over the country, told KHVT it would build the park for St. Louis for free if KHTV could get land, supplies and volunteers.

"Skate parks cost thousands and thousands of dollars, but [Team Pain] loves us, and they are behind us, because we are one of the few major cities that doesn't have a free public skate park," Bedwell says. "They can't stand it. They think it's a travesty."

Skateboarders are already practicing their moves on the park's new ramps, which have progressed from this a few weeks ago...

...to this:

Lindsay Toler

KHVT also applied for and won a matching $5,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation, which funds parks across the country. Usually, the foundation requires cities to have professional builders on-call before awarding funds, but KHVT's promise of volunteer labor won them the money.

Check out even more photos of St. Louis' first legal skatepark on the next page.

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whats more of a travesty than not having a skatepark in st. louis is that its probably a fact that retarded scooters will be allowed no problem, causing congestion and endangering everyone there, (not to mention parents leaving their young scooter kids at the park to be babysat), but bmx bikers will be banned from using it... sad that in this day and age that this kind of discrimination, intolerance, and predjudice exists... yet if it was anybody else, it would be all over the news. is that fair?

Great job to all the older skaters getting in there and making things happen, all the while making sure the younger guys had their hands in the work so they could have that extra appreciation of skating something they built. Great job KHVT, Team Pain, and all the other good people who gave what they could to the project.